From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Larry Finger Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:19:48 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c: test the just-initialized Message-Id: <4E527394.4080900@lwfinger.net> List-Id: References: <1314021636-11528-4-git-send-email-julia@diku.dk> In-Reply-To: <1314021636-11528-4-git-send-email-julia@diku.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Julia Lawall Cc: Bing Zhao , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/22/2011 09:00 AM, Julia Lawall wrote: > From: Julia Lawall > > Test the just-initialized value rather than some other one. > > The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: > (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) > > // > @r@ > identifier x,y,f!={PTR_ERR,ERR_PTR,ERR_CAST}; > statement S; > @@ > > x = f(...); > ( > if (\(x = NULL\|IS_ERR(x)\)) S > | > *if (\(y = NULL\|IS_ERR(y)\)) > { ... when != x > return ...; } > ) > // > > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall > > --- > drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c > index b28241c..d3111c9 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c > @@ -1480,7 +1480,7 @@ mwifiex_update_curr_bss_params(struct mwifiex_private *priv, > return -ENOMEM; > } > beacon_ie = kzalloc(ie_len, GFP_KERNEL); > - if (!bss_desc) { > + if (!beacon_ie) { > dev_err(priv->adapter->dev, " failed to alloc bss_desc\n"); > return -ENOMEM; > } The error message should also get the bss_desc => beacon_ie chang. Larry